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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...





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Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...


In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number

In the Brain, Seven Is A Magic Number

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (43) | comments 14

Having a tough time recalling a phone number someone spoke a few minutes ago or forgetting items from a mental grocery list is not a sign of mental decline; in fact, it's natural.


Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.


Astronauts get extra work done in 1st spacewalk (AP)

Astronauts get extra work done in 1st spacewalk (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station on Thursday and even whipped off an extra chore.


Vitamin B niacin offers no extra benefit to statin therapy in seniors already diagnosed with CAD

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial narrowing and diminishing ...


Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie.


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Surgeon 'gluing' the breastbone together after open-heart surgery

Surgeon 'gluing' the breastbone together after open-heart surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art adhesive that rapidly ...


sky, sun

A lightning strike in Africa helps take the pulse of the sun

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Sunspots, which rotate around the sun's surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to measure the sun's rotation or to prepare long-range forecasts of the Earth's ...


Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Scientists Reproduce a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory.



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